Copyright: Agostino Bonalumi,Fair Use
Agostino Bonalumi made "Bianco," an all-white painting, sometime in the last century using shaped canvas. It’s pretty cool. The surface of this painting has got all these horizontal ridges; the white canvas has been pushed out from behind, like landscape swells, but they fade away into flatter areas. It’s like, what is flat, and what is three-dimensional? Is it a painting, or is it sculpture? There’s a real optical push-and-pull as you look at it, because the light and shadow keep changing. It’s minimal but in a super physical way. It has the reductive quality of someone like Robert Ryman, who dedicated his practice to white painting, but with a wild, baroque sense of drama, too. There's something about the limitations, but there's also something about the freedom to make something very beautiful.
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